Cursor
How vibe coders and indie builders use Cursor: 320 projects built with it and 450 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
320
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
1.5%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -26%
Add-ons built for it
450
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Claude (chat or unspecified) 85
- Claude Code 71
- Codex 63
- Claude API 50
- ChatGPT 43
- Supabase 38
- React 29
- Vercel 28
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Cursor
- Spec Architect — Guides spec-driven development from proposal to requirements to tasks, has AI coding agents execute the tasks, and verifies results against the spec.“Spec Architect: a ~27 MB Tauri app for spec-driven development with AI agents”
- StoreFast — Publishes Microsoft Store app updates in one step, auto-translating release notes and forwarding certification and review alerts.“Looking for 5 Microsoft Store devs to try a tool I built for publishing updates”
- Teserra — Saves images, video, fonts and web pages into plain folders on a Mac and finds them by text description using a local search model.“I built Teserra, an "Obsidian for images", a native Mac library that keeps everything in plain folders”
- Trace UI — Extracts UI components, design tokens and assets from any website and exports them as clean React, Tailwind or HTML code.“Building tool to turn any website into clean usable code and design. Looking for feedback 🩵”
- Floating Plane theme picker — Recolors a portfolio website's interface from colors extracted from an uploaded image, with a contrast check and local theme saving.“Change My Website’s Theme By Uploading An Image”
- OmniNotch — Puts a multi-tool dashboard in the Mac notch with sales stats, AI usage tracking, a teleprompter, clipboard history, a file shelf, and music, weather, calendar and note widgets.“I know there are a hundred notch apps already. Here's why I built another one.”
- midcode — Lets developers visually edit a website's React or Astro source code on a live canvas and writes changes back as minimal source diffs.“Edit your code visually with midcode”
- writenode — Captures highlights, notes, and AI responses from web pages into a searchable, auto-linked memory layer in the browser.“I built a floating research layer for Chrome — it remembers what your tabs were about so you don't have to”
- samepageapp — Delivers a daily question that friends answer, with everyone's answers hidden until you submit your own.“Looking for a few friend groups to beta test my app”
- Here's everything that goes… — Provides a reusable setup of build, signing, licensing, payments, email, and website tooling around a paid Mac app.“Here's everything that goes into a paid Mac app (besides the app itself)”
- MicroGrind — Builds a concept map from a student's documents, generates source-grounded lessons, flashcards and questions, and schedules short study sessions based on per-concept progress.“Building a study app that maps your notes before it quizzes you. The hard part is getting the AI to stick to the source.”
- Headrails — Routes handoffs between team AI agents through a shared inbox and stores their findings in a searchable shared memory.“I built a shared inbox for my team's AI agents so they'd stop routing their handoffs through humans in Slack channels”
- ConnectMachine — Stores business contacts from scanned paper cards, notes, voice memos and social profiles, and exposes them to AI tools like Claude and Cursor via MCP.“We got our first G2 review this week. The thing that surprised me was which feature they picked.”
- PrimeTask — Manages projects, tasks, calendar, visual workflows and CRM in a local workspace stored as plain JSON files.“Your projects can stay local on Windows too. PrimeTask for Windows 10/11 is here.”
- WarpLink — Provides deep linking, install attribution, and real-time link analytics for mobile apps through SDKs and a REST API.“I built WarpLink: deep linking, install attribution, and analytics for mobile apps, without the enterprise invoice”
Latest add-ons built for Cursor
- TokenSaver Image Optimizer — Crops and resizes images attached to chat sites so they use fewer estimated tokens before upload.“One 4K screenshot can cost 3x more tokens than it needs to. Here's a free fix for Claude, ChatGPT & Cursor”
- Inkframe — Lays out comic pages and storyboards from photos, illustrations, and video stills in a browser editor with local storage.“Inkframe: An open-source comic studio for photos, video stills, and AI-assisted dialogue”
- Klarion — Scans code for leaked secrets using regex and entropy checks, then has an AI model judge whether each flagged match is real.“Worried about your AI agent leaking secrets, or tired of secret-scanner false positives?”
- Updater — Records what coding agents ship, why, tradeoffs, files and expected impact, and makes that history searchable.“I built an open-source shipping memory for coding agents”
- OpenRod — Runs AI coding agents in isolated sandboxes with policy controls for network egress, secrets, and audit logging.“I built an open-source control plane for sandboxing AI coding agents - looking for honest feedback”
- UnboundMark — Provides a browser-based visual workspace for documents, Kanban boards, calendars, spreadsheets, presentations, and canvases, with a remote MCP server that lets coding agents read and edit the same vault.“I built a Docs/Office-feel vault with remote MCP for Cursor & Claude — looking for feedback”
- Cursor Remote Lite — Relays a phone interface to a running Cursor editor so the user can answer agent prompts, approve commands, send tasks and review file changes remotely.“I built a free, open-source way to keep using Cursor on my computer from my phone”
- dotpals — Displays plain-language summaries of what AI coding agents are doing on your desktop, including file changes, test failures, retries, and approval requests.“[dotpals] - A desktop pal that tells you in plain words what your AI coding agent actually did”
- Vex (Vex's Skillgit) — Ingests code repositories into versioned, AST-chunked context that AI agents query in real time over MCP.“I built a background skill manager that treats agent memory like Git (AST-aware, MCP-ready, potato-PC friendly).”
- ZombieAgent / Hexology — Visualizes locally running AI agents as zombies wandering around a hex-grid town in the browser.“Testing Agent use concept: 2 styles, need feedback. Looking for feedback.”
- skink — Verifies email addresses via SMTP checks, including on catch-all domains, returning a confidence score and reasons per result.“I built an email verifier that refuses to fake a "deliverable" answer”
- BuildBlueprint — Lets users choose a tech stack and generates a context pack of agent instruction and security files for coding agents.“I built a stack builder for developers and vibe coders — looking for feedback”
- I'm giving away $10,000 of my… — Runs a GTM data enrichment workflow (account pulling, column building, CRM sync) from an AI assistant chat via MCP.“I'm giving away $10,000 of my product to people who can break my MCP”
- Bruto — Stores project tasks as notes inside the repo and lets AI coding agents read and update them through an MCP server.“Bruto: a task board that lives in your repo, for you and your AI”
- Agent ops pack — Provides templates for a one-page charter and draft-only permission rules that govern how coding agents operate.“I turned “my agents keep freelancing” into a tiny ops pack (charter + draft-only rules) — looking for feedback on the free skeleton”
Pitched as alternatives to Cursor
- CrickCoder — Provides pay-per-use AI autocomplete and chat inside VS Code and JetBrains sidebars, billed at raw API cost plus a margin.“I got tired of $20 mo AI subscriptions, built my own pay-per-use plugin, and immediately got destroyed by free-tier abuse.”
- claudeai directory — Lists resources for the Claude ecosystem such as MCP servers, skills, prompts, and tools in one searchable place.“I built claudeai.directory inspired by cursor.directory now 150+ signups so far”
- Orbit — Generates a React/Next.js app from a prompt and keeps project context in one workspace across research, coding, and iteration.“I got tired of explaining the same project to every AI tool”
- Juice — Runs an AI coding agent in the browser that reads, writes, edits and searches code files and scrapes URLs using the user's own API keys.“I built Juice: A fully open-source, browser-based AI coding agent (Uses AI Studio & OpenRouter)”
- Juice — Runs a browser-based AI coding agent that reads, writes and edits files and searches code using the user's own Google AI Studio or OpenRouter API keys.“I built Juice: A fully open-source, browser-based AI coding agent (Uses AI Studio & OpenRouter)”
- Need testers for my vibe video… — Automates trivial and tedious video editing tasks using natural-language direction, similar to an AI coding assistant for video.“Need testers for my vibe video editor”
- Lume IDE — Provides a code editor with AI coding assistance in beginner and advanced modes, as an alternative to Cursor.“i just built a beginner and advanced version of cursor together.”
- coachLLM — Coaches users through data structures and algorithms problems in a code editor, withholding full answers while generating tests and answering questions about solutions.“Free DSA coach -coachLLM”
- Oxi — Runs a code editor with chat and terminal that can run AI models locally on the user's computer or on a networked GPU machine.“Oxi: a local-first AI code editor. One binary, works offline, MIT licensed.”
- Devellix — Generates complete software projects, such as websites, Discord bots, Minecraft plugins and Roblox scripts, from a plain-English description.“I built an AI that creates software from a prompt -- websites, Discord bots, Minecraft plugins, Roblox scripts, and more”
- awesome-open-ai-developer-tools — Catalogs open-source alternatives to paid AI developer tools, with a cheat sheet mapping proprietary products to open equivalents and known-weakness notes for each entry.“I catalogued the open-source replacement for every paid AI dev tool I was using”
- I’m building an AI startup and… — Generates and edits React/Next.js website or app projects from plain-language descriptions in chat, with live preview and export or deploy.“I’m building an AI startup and I’d love your honest feedback.”
- Portus — Provides a multi-tab terminal shell with file browsing, file editing, git integration and session persistence for running and monitoring AI coding agent CLIs.“Finally I built the vibe-coding console of my dreams! Portus is an opensource, multi-tab shell that let me run and monitor agents, just that, no fancy dashboards bs. Check it out!”
- OpenCode on Android — Runs the OpenCode AI coding agent on an Android phone via Termux and glibc, without root.“VIbe Coding On Phone - OpenCode On Android - No Root”
- StarkIDE — Runs multiple AI coding agents side by side in a desktop app with file editing, Git management, and task notes.“I built a tool to run multiple AI coding agents on one project without killing my computer”